"The Qt development toolkit is undergoing a major overhaul. The developers behind the project announced the availability of the Qt 5 alpha release this week. It's a key milestone on the path to the official launch of Qt 5, expected to occur later this year." The kind of stuff to read Ars for.

I'm sorry to read they're phasing out C++ in favour of JavaScript. I don't have anything against JS, but one of the main reasons I use Qt is because of how easy it is to lift my existing C++ code into Qt projects.

I'm sure JavaScript is great for small app developers, but I wouldn't want to implement large projects in it.